If "gasoelectric" is short for "gasoline-electric", why don't people use "dieselectric" instead of "diesel-electric"?
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Egao No Genki
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When words are separated and united with other words they aren't done willy nilly. Gasoline is split up into gas-: refering to it being a light chemical that easily turns into a gaseous state (as far as I can gather), -ol: organic, -ine/-ene: meaning it's a molecule containing at least Hydrogen, Carbon and double bonds between the Carbon atoms. Electric: refering to electric power obviously. So they have taken the 'gas' and 'o' (from 'ol') and linked it with electric to form a new word refering to using both forms of power. Granted they probably should not have split up the suffix -ol but I suppose it helps with the pronunciation. Diesel on the other hand is not made up of prefixes and suffixes like gas-ol-ene, it is a name of the French-born German engineer Rudolf Diesel. So the only way to link these two words is not by spliting them up but to hyphenate them!
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i think your reading too much in to it who ever came up with the name thought it sounded cool and dieselectric just doesnt sound right.
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